Board Thread:Wiki Editing Help/@comment-27248965-20180128000015

For all Discussion Mods and members outside of the Administration Team: if you see a spam page, do NOT remove any content inside. Instead, please insert  On top of that page and report to an Admin or a Content Mod to handle.

Some users never learn. Even if newcomers cannot create articles now, some Auto-Confirmed users can still stir up trouble. There have been incidents of members trying to remove the spam pages, only to find themselves banned by the Abuse Filter.

Abuse Filter is a measure implemented and enabled on our Wikia by Volunteer Spam Task Force of Fandom Community Central last year, due to the Deathbot incident. However, it has its limits — it only has the ability to detect mass removal of content in articles, it is not capable of detecting spam pages.

To avoid getting accidentally suspended, if you see a spam page, never attempt to empty it, because blanking cannot get rid of the page, and you are at risk of the accidental suspensions. The correct method is to insert  On top of the article, then report to Administrators or Content Moderators, they have power to truly delete the spam articles. Thank you for your attention. 